Bookstore Quotes
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When dad says he's going to church, he actually means he's going to a library or a bookstore. - Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac.
— Gabrielle Zevin
I sell well now in Russia. I remember one signing in Russia some years ago where the bookstore had two strongmen to hold the crowds back.
— Robert Sheckley
Go to any bookstore, and you'll see thousands of books on etiquette, which suggests there's a lot of self-help going on. There is hope.
— Letitia Baldrige
What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore, it knows it's not foolin' a soul.
— Neil Gaiman
We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers.
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.
— Chris Abani
Profitable bookstores sell books. Unprofitable book sellers store books.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.
— Carolyn G. Heilbrun
A place ain't a place without a bookstore,
— Gabrielle Zevin
Get your friends together, go to your local bookstore and have a book-buying party.
— Roy Blount Jr.
I did not add that we would pass by a bookstore on the way. It's an addiction that cannot be easily explained and can rarely be overcome.
— Joan Hess
Can I get a cat?" Ty asked after exactly one block.
"What?"
"A cat. I want a cat. You get a bookstore, I should get a cat. — Abigail Roux
"What?"
"A cat. I want a cat. You get a bookstore, I should get a cat. — Abigail Roux
I had to leave my debit card at home when I went into a bookstore or else I would drain my account.
— Chelsea M. Cameron
Walking rapidly - or even slowly - through a gallery is equivalent to browsing through a bookstore and reading the blurbs.
— Wendy Beckett
We both know you can't split a bookstore. (I don't even share shelf space.)
— Mary Jane Hathaway
Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject?
— Slash Coleman
This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.
— John Callahan
After school, I'd hang out at the Borders bookstore until it closed.
— Garrett Hedlund
I think it's easy to get a book in a bookstore. I think it's just damn near impossible to get a book out of a bookstore.
— Larry Winget
The smallest bookstore still contains more ideas of worth than have been presented in the entire history of television.
— Andrew Ross
Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.
— Helene Hanff
Took a look at the bookstore lot, filled to capacity with the exception of a few slots
— Janet Evanovich
My bookstore obsession grew to the point where I'd search for new shops during family trips, as though that were the reason for our travel.
— Lewis Buzbee
My main interest was finding boyfriends. I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in.
— Sally Mann
Wooed by a vivid cover, she picked one up and leafed through it. She loved thee way it smelled, the ink, the fine paper, the oversized photographs.
— Elizabeth Brundage
A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Walking away from her ... Now that was a whole different section of the bookstore.
-Markus, Dark Desires at Midnight — Jessica Lee
-Markus, Dark Desires at Midnight — Jessica Lee
Editors are more concerned with the first chapters of a book; that's what everyone reads first in the bookstore or in the online sample.
— Mary Roach
Work in a bookstore and learn that most people in this world feel guilty about being who they are.
— Caroline Kepnes
I love to slip into the bookstore. It is my haven. I don't have to prove myself there.
— Deborah Meyler
What bothered me most about chick lit, frankly, was how the term was used to dismiss a huge chunk of the bookstore as silly, girlish prattle.
— Rachel Sklar
The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist.
— Bruce Boxleitner
The return of the Independent Bookstore is the answer to the stack 'em high, sell 'em cheap megastores.
— Kambiz Mostofizadeh
The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore, it knows it's not foolin' a soul"). He
— Neil Gaiman
I hate book parties," A.J. says. "But you run the bookstore," Lambiase says. "It's a problem," A.J. admits.
— Gabrielle Zevin
I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.
— Tahereh Mafi
You can find my book at your favorite bookstore, and if it isn't there, find a new favorite.
— Joan Rivers
In a second-hand bookshop head to the back, find the old books with dust undisturbed and worn off covers for these clothe true treasures.
— Rachel Hall
I have never passed a bookstore without going inside; it's sacrilegious
— Denise Hildreth Jones
I was a blueberry picker, bindery worker, bookstore clerk and later manager, and a Realtor.
— Lisa McMann
You feel rain in a used bookstore. The old pages pick up the damp and mustiness like old bones do rheumatism.
— Josh Lanyon
A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore.
— Gabrielle Zevin
The quality of the content is not determined by the section it sits in in the bookstore.
— Christine Riccio
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman where the Self Help section was. She said if she told me it would defeat the purpose.
— Dennis Miller
A place is not really a place without a bookstore.
— Gabrielle Zevin
It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore.
— George Packer
He couldn't call the bookstore haunted. Which Mark Richards considered a shame, really.
— Donna K. Fitch
If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college.
— R. Albert Mohler Jr.
You find any more dead bodies, someone would think you owned a mystery bookstore in Pasadena.
— Rhys Ford
A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.
— Terry Pratchett
I can never leave a bookstore without buying a book. I read four or five at a time.
— Mireille Guiliano
I get crazy in a bookstore. It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything.
— Reese Witherspoon
I just love the smell of an old book store and the feel of the crisp pages along my fingertips.
— Leah Spiegel
The best moment is when you walk into a bookstore and see a pile of your books - that is the oddest experience in the world!
— Michael Scott
A town without a bookstore is an empty shell of a place.
— Ellery Adams
We saw our first Western together, Rio Bravo with John Wayne, at the Cinema Park, across the street from my favorite bookstore.
— Khaled Hosseini
I am a big advocate of the role of the bookstore in the community.
— Graeme Simsion
I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me.
— Erik Larson
I pretty much ran from the front of the bookstore to the new release section and that was all.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout
I think, to give our bookshelf a little credit, our area of the library and the bookstore has attracted stronger writers as it's started to thrive.
— Margaret Stohl
Bookstore operators tell us that the books which head the bestseller list are books on peace and happiness.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
I gotta do what I think is right, and if enough people like it, I'm a winner. And if they don't, I'll open a bookstore.
— Warren Spector
Hugo headed off toward the door to leave, but the bookstore was warm and quiet, and the teetering piles of books fascinated him.
— Brian Selznick
I think bookstore browsing will become more cherished as time goes on because it can't be replicated virtually.
— Chuck Hogan
I'm an inveterate bookstore wanderer. I read constantly, so I love a good bookstore. I can't help it.
— David Crosby
Heaven is a place on earth, and it's a bookstore.
— Mimi Strong
Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.
— David Levithan
Bookstore withdrawal - who would suspect such a thing existed?
— Cherise Sinclair
Just as it can be addictive to be in a real world bookstore or library, it's the same on the Web.
— Trip Adler
The only bookstore I had was the paperback rack at the drugstore.
— Larry McMurtry
I'd go to a bookstore, and I'd flip through flap copy, and I'd think, 'If this gal can get published, I can get published.'
— MaryJanice Davidson
If I'm in the bookstore, and I see a 700-page novel, my first thought is, 'Ooh, how could you cut this down to size and make a movie out of it?'
— Brian Helgeland
It's funny how we like labels. If I ever have a bookstore, I'm not going to put any labels on the sections.
— Audrey Niffenegger
One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
— Manny Farber
I tell you what's really ridiculous
going into a bookstore and there's all these books about yourself. In a way, it feels like you're already dead. — Thom Yorke
going into a bookstore and there's all these books about yourself. In a way, it feels like you're already dead. — Thom Yorke
The life-changing encounters that John Quincy Adams made as an adolescent on his own in Stockholm began with a friendship he struck up at a bookstore.
— Paul C. Nagel
Any independent bookstore that has managed to survive is the best place to do a reading.
— Ruth Ozeki
The measure of a bookstore is not its receipts, but its friends," he says, "and here, we are rich indeed.
— Robin Sloan
I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn't known I wanted.
— Mary Ann Shaffer
I did discover that if you're interested in low wages, a bookstore ranks below retail clothing sales, except the hours are worse.
— Sue Grafton
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.
— Douglas Coupland
Even an ice cream parlor - a definite advantage - does not alleviate the sorrow I feel for a town lacking a bookstore.
— Natalie Goldberg
Books are to the mind as the whetstone for the knives.
— Aman Jassal